Margaret Trudeau Quotes

I prepared myself for my marriage to Pierre Trudeau, but I didn't prepare myself for marriage to the prime minister.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

To say I am not mentally tired in ways and exhausted in ways would be a lie.

I had to divorce my husband, the prime minister. I found it terribly overwhelming.

Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

PTSD has a terminal side to it that calls for more urgency.

I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going on all the time.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

The pressure used to wear on me. I was on Twitter a couple years ago, and I couldn't handle it all that well. Don't get me wrong, because 90% of the feedback you get is fantastic.

It is hard to manage a personal life when everything you do is amplified in the public media.

The General is suffering from mental saddle sores.

First Ladies have been through a lot by the time their husbands get to the Presidency.

People get tired of unresolved issues.

I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it's fine. Even when I grew up in a village, people wanted to know who was going to the dance with whom, and I understand, but I think if I engage with it too much, it won't be that healthy.

Having every little aspect of your life in the public eye is really hard because it leaves more room for criticism, and I just want to live.

There's such an emphasis on people being the perfect thing and then destroying them because it's good press.

I had a breakdown after making 'Atonement.'

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was - there were some dark days.